[PC-BSD Pbi-dev] OT: FreeBSD Ports depending on rblibtorrent

[Adam Hopstetter]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:36:19 -0500
> Adam Hopstetter <ahopstetter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:45:29 -0500
>>> Adam Hopstetter <ahopstetter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>>        Now as far as the ports go .... I'm in full agreement!
>>>> However, I have not been able to successfully get in touch with the
>>>> port maintainers. There are two ports in question
>>>> net-p2p/rblibtorrent/ and net-p2p/qbittorrent/. Unfortunately I'm
>>>> starting to feel as if they really aren't being maintained ....
>>>> it's been over 9 months since the last update for these 2 ports.
>>>> (While the developers have  been updating the source constantly
>>>> throughout 2008).
>>>>         
>>> Please fill a PR with the update in question; if the maintainers
>>> don't respond in a timely manner it will be committed via
>>> maintainer timeout.
>>>
>>> Please drop linimon at freebsd.org an email describing your efforts to
>>> contact the maintainers, update the port, etc. He's the one from
>>> portmngr@ that handles this king of issues.
>>>       
>>        Been doing research on this issue as it relates to the 
>> qbittorrent and rblibtorrent ports and have encountered a few
>> potential hangups.
>>
>>        First of all, please forgive me for being a "newbie" at 
>> interacting with the FreeBSD/PC-BSD dev groups (not a newbie at c/c++ 
>> ;)   )... I've simply never have participated till now.
>>     
>
> Welcome aboard then! :-)
>
>  [ .. ]
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>>        First to address Ion-Mihai ... I received your mail regarding 
>> submiting an e-mail to linimon at freebsd.org. Appreciate it!
>>        However, sorry "newbie" here  ... PR = "Patch Request" ??? If
>>     
>
> Problem Report.
>
>   
>> So (or whatever you mean) ... is there some official document I can
>> obtain or format I'm to follow???
>>     
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> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html
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>>        Further, apparently, my old e-mail provider was having issues 
>> when I attempted to contact the port maintainers previously (found
>> this out by other known contacts not receiving my e-mails .... now
>> I'm solid on GMAIL ... that said ... I'm copying the port maintainers
>> on this e-mail ... and for their benefit  this e-mail regards
>> upgrading the net-p2p/qbittorrent port to the latest v1.3.1 release).
>>     
>
> This might explain the unresponsiveness ...
>
>   
>>        Now to the business of the ports themselves ... after
>> researching ... there appear to be 3 ports that rely on
>> net-p2p/rblibtorrent ... net-p2p/hrktorrent, net-p2p/sharktorrent and
>> net-p2p/qbittorrent. Apparrently if we upgrade rblibtorrent to
>> version 0.14.1 (required for the new qbittorrent 1.3.1) it will
>> definately break sharktorrent and possibly break hrktorrent (at least
>> in my testing).
>>     
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> OK, this may be a reason not to upgrade it.
>
>   
>>        -- sharktorrent -- Definately breaks with
>> '/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: sharktorrent: Undefined symbol 
>> "_ZN10libtorrent7sessionC1ERKNS_11fingerprintE"'
>>     
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> Strange.
>  
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>>        -- hrktorrent - Appears to function properly (but appearances
>> are deceiving) ... but during the make process for core.cpp ... it
>> complains with the following messages ...
>>              core.cpp: In member function 'int CCore::Run()':
>>             core.cpp:246: warning: '__comp_ctor ' is deprecated 
>> (declared at /usr/local/include/libtorrent/torrent_info.hpp:132)
>>             core.cpp:253: warning: 'add_torrent' is deprecated
>> (declared at /usr/local/include/libtorrent/session.hpp:202)
>>     
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> Not a problem.
>
>   
>>              But again, ... seems to function probably ... in my
>> testing of it's "finite features".
>>
>>          -- qbittorrent (of course works flawlessly) :)
>>
>>          Now, worthy of noting .... sharktorrent has extremely
>> outdated source ... still at  0.1.8.2-BETA ... and hasn't been worked
>> on since July 2007. Even worse the interface it provides is WEAK (in
>> my humble opinion). Is such old beta??? source code worth
>> maintaining ???
>>     
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> This is the version in ports? Is there a newer version?
>
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>>           hrktorrent (a console based torrent client) is being
>> actively updated however and deserves attention as many MAY seek to
>> wrap web-based (or other) interfaces around it for any number of
>> centralized torrent server apps. Which (of course) qbittorrent
>> already has a nice web-based centralized torrent server built-in. But
>> is Nice thought anyway!
>>
>>           Finally, I've noticed ... that there is a 
>> net-p2p/rblibtorrent-devel/ port, which is a slightly higher version 
>> than rblibtorrent-0.13 currently in the ports.
>>
>>           Now to my question ... Would it be possible to upgrade 
>> rblibtorrent-devel to version 0.14.1 and making qbittorrent rely
>> depend on this ??? (thus not breaking hrktorrent or sharktorrent!!!).
>>     
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> Yes.
>
>   
>> Problems I can foresee there (of course) is that if one were to
>> attempt to install hrktorrent/sharktorrent and qbittorrent ... they
>> would most certainly experience library/linking issues! (or port
>> build issues). But this would make the qbittorrent port upgradable.
>>     
>
> Depending on how the dependency line in each port is written, once one
> is installed it would be possible for the port to fail to build
> gracefully. No real problem here.
>
>   
>>           So I'm almost certain these are the reasons the ports have
>> not been updated as of yet ... even though I've yet to speak with the 
>> maintainers.
>>     
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> Probably.
>
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>> Unfortunately though ... it seems that qbittorrent is
>> the only active open-sourced project fully leveraging the updates to 
>> rblibtorrent (and in FreeBSD is suffering at the expense of
>> shark/hrk).
>>     
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>  [ .. ]
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> I'm happily using net-p2p/libtorrent and net-p2p/rtorrent
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Ion-Mihia,

      Thanks for your guidance and assistance ... I will summit my PR 
promptly!

       Regarding sharktorrent ... no it's version 0.1.1 in the most 
current ports ... which is even older than the "current beta" I 
mentioned (of July 2007). Point I'm making here is that sharktorrent 
0.1.1 in ports ... is as at best a Dec. 2006 release (fairly old). 
Anyhow ... seems to be another abandoned project on sourceforge 
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=645877)

       In any case ... I will summit the report and see where it takes 
us ... thanks again for your help!

Sincerely,

Adam Hopstetter